Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn al-Husayni al-Marashi al-Shahrestani al-Haeri (Arabic: محمد حسين الحسيني المرعشي الشهرستاني الحائري; Persian: محمد حسين حسينى مرعشى شهرستانى حائرى; 1840 – February 25, 1898), known as al-Shahrestani al-Thani (transl.
the second Shahrestani; the first being his brother-in-law, Sayyid Muhammad-Husayn al-Musawi al-Shahrestani), was an Iranian-Iraqi Shia marja' and poet.
[1][2] al-Sharetstani was born to Sayyid Muhammad-Ali al-Marashi, and the daughter of al-Wahid al-Behbahani.
His family are originally from Shahrestan, but he was born in Kermanshah, raised in Marash, and lived and died in Karbala.
He had seven sons, Muhammad-Ali, Muhamamd-Jafar, Zayn al-Abideen, Murtadha, Muhammad, Abu Talib, and Ahmed.